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Distal axonopathy associated with chronic gluten enteropathy: a treatable disorder
J G Kaplan1, D Pack, D Horoupian
1Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461.
Neurology
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
Our experience with one patient and literature review reveals that patients with chronic gluten enteropathy and severe steatorrhea may develop a generalized peripheral neuropathy of the distal axonopathy type. Vitamin levels are usually normal, and the neuropathy appears to respond to gluten restriction.